After studying Henri Matisse's life and
looking at his works...both in painting and in papercutting...we observed his
use of color, line, and direction. The students designed their own papercut
art using only colored construction paper, glue, and scissors to construct a
pleasing, balanced, free-form design with overlapping colors. The first three
projects you see here have an overlapping of 6 colors each and the bottom project
has only 4 overlapping colors within the design.